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Why Selective Dry Cow Therapy (SDCT)?

Utilising the indigenous knowledge system shared by a farmer from Gujarat, a poly-herbal and cost-effective medicine has been developed to treat mastitis, an infectious disease of dairy cattle.Mastitis is a common infectious disease, which ...

Carbery Group has become the latest processor to set its milk price for April supplies, revealing its decision to hold its price.

Rodney Elliott has been dairy farming in South Dakota since 2006. Antibiotics are no longer used on any lactating animals on Rodney Elliott’s 6,000-cow dairy farm in South Dakota, USA. Elliott, who is originally from Maguiresbridge, Co Fermanagh, moved to the USA in 2006 to set up Drumgoon Dairy. “We are just into our third year of using no antibiotics on lactating cows. It’s been amazing the results we have seen with it,” he told the Ulster Grassland Society on Tuesday. Elliott decided...

April 24, 2021, 4:00 pm Milk recording is an important management tool used on dairy farms to identify the best performing cows, high SCC (Somatic Cell Count) cows and many others. In December 2020, the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF) milk recording statistics showed that less than 40% of dairy farmers in Ireland milk record their herds, accounting for just 7,000 dairy farms. The low levels of participation are worrying, with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)...

Carbery Group has become the latest processor to reveal its milk price for the month of March, announcing a lift in price for last month.

For the fourth straight year, somatic cell counts were under 200,000 cells per milliliter for U.S. herds enrolled in Dairy Herd Improvement (DHI) testing plans.

Milk’s most important contact surface A combination of factors contributes to high-quality milk, but for New York dairy farmer Jim Davenport, he believes a low somatic cell count begins at the teat level. “Milk quality issues inside the teat start with what’s on the teat,” he said. Davenport shared the strategies used on his farm in the March Hoard’s Dairyman webinar, “Clean cows make clean milk.” Davenport’s dairy is located near Ancramdale, N.Y., just two hours north of New Y...

Carbery Group has announced its decision to lift its milk price for January becoming the latest processor to reveal its price for last month.

Aurivo has become the latest processor to reveal the price it has decided to pay its suppliers for December milk.